The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 82

The result was that after a time Mistress Vedehikā acquired the following evil reputation: “Cruel is Mistress Vedehikā, no meek woman is Mistress Vedehikā, no tranquil woman is Mistress Vedehikā!”

Who acts: result, meek woman, tranquil woman · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: Cruel Mistress, Mistress

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (result, meek woman, tranquil woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 result	det
2	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 acquired	nsubj:outer
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 acquired	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 acquired	mark
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 Mistress	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Mistress	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Mistress	compound
8	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 acquired	nsubj
9	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Mistress	appos
10	acquired	acquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reputation	det
12	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 reputation	case
13	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 reputation	amod
14	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 acquired	obj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Mistress	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Mistress	punct
17	Cruel	cruel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Mistress	compound
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Mistress	cop
19	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 acquired	obl
20	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Mistress	flat
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Mistress	punct
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 woman	det
23	meek	meek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Mistress	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Mistress	cop
26	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Mistress	conj
27	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Mistress	flat
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Mistress	punct
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 woman	det
30	tranquil	tranquil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 woman	amod
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Mistress	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 Mistress	cop
33	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Mistress	appos
34	Vedehikā	Vedehikā	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Mistress	flat
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 Mistress	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 Mistress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the result		a time Mistress nsubj; the evil reputation obj; acquire property	tree rules
2	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present		Cruel Mistress and Mistress		tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	no meek woman	Mistress		tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	no tranquil woman	Mistress		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 82

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 82